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  • Care for Older Adults in India

    Living Arrangements and Quality of Life

    Edited by Ajay Bailey, Martin Hyde, K. S. James ...
    Series series Ageing in a Global Context
    India’s ageing population is growing rapidly; over 60s constitute 7 per cent of the total population and this is projected to triple in the next four decades.Drawing on a wide range of studies, this book examines living arrangements across India and their impact on the care and wellbeing of older people. Addressing access to welfare initiatives and changing cultural norms including co-residence, ... Read more

    $41.39 USD

  • Going to University Abroad

    A guide to studying outside the UK

    by Martin Hyde, Anthony Hyde ...
    More and more students in the world now decide to undertake their university studies in another country to their own. They see advantages of quality, value and experience in studying abroad and rightly see the experience as a preparation for life and a big plus for their CVs in an increasingly inter-connected world and job market. The world language is now undisputedly English and even ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Ageing and Globalisation

    by Martin Hyde, Paul Higgs ...
    Series series Ageing in a Global Context
    Population ageing and globalisation represent two of the most radical social transformations that have occurred. This book provides, for the first time, an accessible overview of how they interact.Ageing has been conventionally framed within the boundaries of nation states, yet demographic changes, transmigration, financial globalization and the global media have rendered this perspective ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Work and Health in India

    by Vimal Kumar, Mangadv Paramasivan Ganesh, Sarlaksha Ganesh, Subrata K Roy, T.J. Kamalanabhan, Vaijayanthee Kumar, Anshul Kastor, Sanjay K Mohanty, Harihar Sahoo, A.V. Jose, Tores Theorell, Hugo Westerlund, Linda Magnusson Hanson ...
    The rapid economic growth of the past few decades has radically transformed India’s labour market, bringing millions of former agricultural workers into manufacturing industries, and, more recently, the expanding service industries, such as call centres and IT companies.Alongside this employment shift has come a change in health and health problems, as communicable diseases have become less common ... Read more

    $47.69 USD

  • The International Student's Guide to UK Education

    Unlocking University Life and Culture

    by Martin Hyde ...
    Are you thinking of studying at university in Britain? Do you feel confused about which course is best for you, which university to choose, and how to apply? Are you wondering about what kinds of challenges you will be faced with, how best to approach them and how to overcome them? If so, this guidebook is for you.Honest and accurate, this book acts as an international student introduction and ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

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  • Diversity, Culture and Counselling

    A Canadian Perspective

    Edited by M. Honore France, EdD, Maria del Carmen Rodriguez, PhD, Geoffrey G. Hett, PhD ...
    A uniquely Canadian approach to multicultural counsellingIn a country as diverse as Canada, a multicultural counselling approach provides an essential starting point for working with people from different ethnicities, sexualities, gender identities, abilities and religious backgrounds. Bringing Canadian perspectives to the field of multicultural counselling, this collection provides practical ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • An Uncertain Glory

    India and its Contradictions

    by Jean Drèze, Amartya Sen ...
    When India became independent in 1947 after two centuries of colonial rule, it immediately adopted a firmly democratic political system, with multiple parties, freedom of speech, and extensive political rights. The famines of the British era disappeared, and steady economic growth replaced the economic stagnation of the Raj. The growth of the Indian economy quickened further over the last three ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Happiness

    Lessons from a New Science

    by Richard Layard ...
    There is a paradox at the heart of our lives. We all want more money, but as societies become richer, they do not become happier. This is not speculation: It's the story told by countless pieces of scientific research. We now have sophisticated ways of measuring how happy people are, and all the evidence shows that on average people have grown no happier in the last fifty years, even as average ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Indigenous Cultures and Mental Health Counselling

    Four Directions for Integration with Counselling Psychology

    Edited by Roy Moodley, Ashley Hyatt, Suzanne Stewart ...
    Series series Explorations in Mental Health
    North America’s Indigenous population is a vulnerable group, with specific psychological and healing needs that are not widely met in the mental health care system. Indigenous peoples face certain historical, cultural-linguistic and socioeconomic barriers to mental health care access that government, health care organizations and social agencies must work to overcome. This volume examines ways ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • One Illness Away

    Why People Become Poor and How They Escape Poverty

    by Anirudh Krishna ...
    Why does poverty persist? A critical, but so far ignored, part of the answer lies in the fact that poverty is regularly created. Large numbers of people are escaping poverty, but large numbers are concurrently falling into chronic poverty. This book presents the first large-scale examination of the reasons why people fall into poverty and how they escape it in diverse contexts. Drawing upon ... Read more

    $34.19 USD

  • Social Work With Older People: Approaches To Person-Centred Practice

    by Terry Scragg, Barbara Hall ...
    This text fills a gap for an accessible textbook which takes a person-centred approach to working with older people by providing readers with a basic knowledge of policy, legislation, theory and research. ... Read more

    $39.59 USD

  • Child Protection and Child Welfare

    A Global Appraisal of Cultures, Policy and Practice

    by Selwyn Stanley, Sven Hessle, Dennis Kimberley, Anuarbek Kakabayev, Teresa Bertotti, Otrude Nontobeko Moyo, Alean Al-Krenawi, PhD, Annamaria Campanini, Kathryn Goldfarb, Marie Connolly, Contiu Soitu, Nazgul Assylbekova, Clare Colton, Menka Tsantefski, Marie-Antoinette Sossou, Daniela-Tatiana Soitu ...
    Child Protection and Child Welfare draws on the knowledge of child protection experts and social care professionals to provide an authoritative international overview of child protection strategy and policy.Devoting particular attention to the role played by culture in determining child welfare issues and child protection responses, this book illustrates the impact of both long-term influences, ... Read more

    $86.09 USD